Medical Assistant: Patient Care & Front Office

Allegheny Health Network; Wexford (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegheny Health Network seeks a healthcare assistant to support physicians and extenders in delivering patient care. You will interview patients, take vital signs, and assist with procedures and injections, while also handling routine front-office duties in a physician practice setting.

The role requires at least a high school diploma and 1 year of direct patient care experience, including documentation in the medical record and adherence to HIPAA policies.

Qualifications

• High School / GED required.
• At least 1 year of direct patient care experience with vital signs.
• Candidate experience must align with expected clinical functions (i.e., injections, phlebotomy, EKGs).

Responsibilities

• Rooms and interviews patients to obtain medical information and to measure vital signs.
• Helps physicians examine and treat patients, handing instruments or performing tasks such as injections.
• Prepares treatment rooms for examinations, keeps room stocked and cleaned, reorders supplies.
• Schedules procedures and obtains authorizations as necessary.
• May collect blood, tissue, or other specimens and prepare them for testing; give injections.
• Uses EHR system to perform front-office duties.

Skills

Vital signs

Injections

Phlebotomy

EKG

Front-office duties

Education

High School / GED

1 year direct patient care experience

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Allegheny Health Network seeks a healthcare assistant to support physicians and extenders in delivering patient care. You will interview patients, take vital signs, and assist with procedures and injections, while also handling routine front-office duties in a physician practice setting.

The role requires at least a high school diploma and 1 year of direct patient care experience, including documentation in the medical record and adherence to HIPAA policies.